Posts in 2018
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Kubernetes 1.13: Simplified Cluster Management with Kubeadm, Container Storage Interface (CSI), and CoreDNS as Default DNS are Now Generally Available
By Kubernetes v1.13 Release Team | Monday, December 03, 2018 in Blog
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.13, our fourth and final release of 2018! Kubernetes 1.13 has been one of the shortest releases to date at 10 weeks. This release continues to focus on stability and extensibility of Kubernetes …
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Kubernetes Docs Updates, International Edition
By Zach Corleissen (Linux Foundation) | Thursday, November 08, 2018 in Blog
As a co-chair of SIG Docs, I'm excited to share that Kubernetes docs have a fully mature workflow for localization (l10n). Abbreviations galore L10n is an abbreviation for localization. I18n is an abbreviation for internationalization. I18n is what …
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gRPC Load Balancing on Kubernetes without Tears
By William Morgan (Buoyant) | Wednesday, November 07, 2018 in Blog
Many new gRPC users are surprised to find that Kubernetes's default load balancing often doesn't work out of the box with gRPC. For example, here's what happens when you take a simple gRPC Node.js microservices app and deploy it on Kubernetes: While …
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Tips for Your First Kubecon Presentation - Part 2
By Michael Gasch (VMware) | Friday, October 26, 2018 in Blog
Hello and welcome back to the second and final part about tips for KubeCon first-time speakers. If you missed the last post, please give it a read here. The Day before the Show Tip #13 - Get enough sleep. I don't know about you, but when I don't get …
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Tips for Your First Kubecon Presentation - Part 1
By Michael Gasch (VMware) | Thursday, October 18, 2018 in Blog
First of all, let me congratulate you to this outstanding achievement. Speaking at KubeCon, especially if it's your first time, is a tremendous honor and experience. Well done! Congrats to everyone who got Kubecon talks accepted! 👏👏👏 To everyone who …
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Kubernetes 2018 North American Contributor Summit
By Bob Killen (University of Michigan), Sahdev Zala (IBM), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) | Tuesday, October 16, 2018 in Blog
The 2018 North American Kubernetes Contributor Summit to be hosted right before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle is shaping up to be the largest yet. It is an event that brings together new and current contributors alike to connect and share …
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2018 Steering Committee Election Results
By Jorge Castro (Heptio), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF), Paris Pittman (Google) | Monday, October 15, 2018 in Blog
Results The Kubernetes Steering Committee Election is now complete and the following candidates came ahead to secure two year terms that start immediately: Aaron Crickenberger, Google, @spiffxp Davanum Srinivas, Huawei, @dims Tim St. Clair, Heptio, …
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Topology-Aware Volume Provisioning in Kubernetes
By Michelle Au (Google) | Thursday, October 11, 2018 in Blog
The multi-zone cluster experience with persistent volumes is improving in Kubernetes 1.12 with the topology-aware dynamic provisioning beta feature. This feature allows Kubernetes to make intelligent decisions when dynamically provisioning volumes by …
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Kubernetes v1.12: Introducing RuntimeClass
By Tim Allclair (Google) | Wednesday, October 10, 2018 in Blog
Kubernetes originally launched with support for Docker containers running native applications on a Linux host. Starting with rkt in Kubernetes 1.3 more runtimes were coming, which lead to the development of the Container Runtime Interface (CRI). …
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Introducing Volume Snapshot Alpha for Kubernetes
By Jing Xu (Google), Xing Yang (Huawei), Saad Ali (Google) | Tuesday, October 09, 2018 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.12 introduces alpha support for volume snapshotting. This feature allows creating/deleting volume snapshots, and the ability to create new volumes from a snapshot natively using the Kubernetes API. What is a Snapshot? Many storage …